Dr. Tannis Morgan, Director of JIBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning & Innovation, received the honour for her work on championing affordable and open resources such as free textbooks available online.

Several years ago, even before BCcampus put out a call for grants for such projects, Dr. Morgan conceived of JIBC’s Zed Cred initiative, a set of courses in a specific program area that allows a student to earn a credential with zero textbook costs through the use of open educational resources and/or free library materials.